Folks in Orange County, California love their cars, but drivers beware: the car wash can turn deadly. Hospice nurse Jolynn Banner of Lincolnton, NC was innocently enjoying her day off recently, when she pulled into the local gas station for a quick car wash. A few minutes later, police got a call saying that someone…
A homeless man sleeping near an underpass was killed instantly when he was struck by an out of control pickup truck. According to police, the pickup truck was headed northbound on I-405 around 11 pm when the driver lost control of the vehicle; the truck skidded off the highway and flipped over, striking and killing…
What makes Callahan & Blaine California’s Premier Litigation Firm? It’s our team of exceptional senior lawyers, like Brian McCormack. Brian is a principal at Callahan & Blain in Santa Ana, California, where his practice focuses on high-stakes, complex litigation, including serious personal injury, wrongful death and product liability cases. Brian has been recognized year in…
Luis Rivera of the Bronx, NY was trying to cross a busy street seventy five feet from the marked crosswalk when he was struck and killed by a city bus. The driver reported that he never saw the twenty two year old, but felt a “bump” and stopped the bus immediately. When he left the…
Unfortunately, workplace accidents happen all the time in Orange County, California and around the world. In what is being called a “freak accident” that took place in Bristol, PA a worker was crushed and killed by his own forklift while working at a local warehouse. Tyrone Rucker, Sr. had apparently stepped down from the forklift…
The New York Times recently reported that Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs fell to his death while trying to escape a stalled elevator in an industrial building in Brooklyn. Fuchs was a well-respected drummer and an important figure in the Brooklyn independent music scene. He had recently played on the Late Show with David Letterman. Fuchs had…
According to a recent article in the Seattle Times, truck driver Charles McDonald was transferring 8,000 gallons of propane from his tanker truck to a storage tank at the Atlas Castings & Technology foundry when something went horribly wrong. The propane ignited causing a workplace explosion and fire. Fire department spokesman Dan Crotty reported that…
